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Aaaarrrrrgh. This isn't a sighting but something I overheard on the radio this morning. On our ride to work we listen to a particular Brisbane radio station, that we continue to listen to throughout the day, then again on our way home. With this station, they tend to pick some controversial listener input from the breakfast show and use it to promo the next days show.
The topic discussed today started as something along the lines of how appropriate is it to let your child go to the toilet in public. Basically if there aren't any facilities around, is it ok to let your child pee on a bush on the street or squat in the gutter. So the callers today were talking about at what age is it appropriate or inappropriate (is it ok for a 2 year old, 3 year old, 4 year old, etc) and is it ok in public, or should there be some effort made to hide the child from view. Lot's of callers. Then the discussion evolved (as it usually does) to adults being caught short, or even drunks throwing up in the street. Then there was the phone call that totally shocked the hosts, so much that they had to use it for the promo.
A woman, who told us that at the time of the incident had just recently had a baby, her and her husband were driving one evening and she felt the need to go. They called in to a petrol station and she asked the guy serving if she could have the key for the toilets. He told her that the toilets were for staff only. She told him, with tears in her eyes, that she had just had a baby, and we all know how that can affect the waterworks of a woman, and she desperately needed to go. He told her again that the toilets were for staff only, no exceptions. She was so desperate that she went around the back of the place and relieved herself on the ground. Throughout the tale, one of the hosts was sharing her displeasure and disbelief that someone would deny facilities to a woman that was in obvious distress, and especially to someone that has just given birth. Then one of the other hosts piped up with the idea that hopefully when the guy went for his smoke break later, he might have stood in the puddle.
So I have had the pleasure (?) of listening to the story of the poor new mum denied her basic human rights to use a toilet at a petrol station, denied by the bad man at the counter, ALL FREAKING DAY.
I'm not wrong on this, am I? I'm positive that there was so much more to that story, but of course we have to believe the new mother was totally demeaned by being forced to relieve herself on the dirty ground of a petrol station rather than use the nice clean toilet. And each time I heard this story it made me angrier and angrier for the poor guy that was being castigated for not letting some SC or EW use the staff toilets. We've all experienced this, but of course we are the bad people when we deny anyone. I really wish I had been able to ring through and debate this, but unfortunately I don't have access to a phone until my first break, which was after the show had ended.
The topic discussed today started as something along the lines of how appropriate is it to let your child go to the toilet in public. Basically if there aren't any facilities around, is it ok to let your child pee on a bush on the street or squat in the gutter. So the callers today were talking about at what age is it appropriate or inappropriate (is it ok for a 2 year old, 3 year old, 4 year old, etc) and is it ok in public, or should there be some effort made to hide the child from view. Lot's of callers. Then the discussion evolved (as it usually does) to adults being caught short, or even drunks throwing up in the street. Then there was the phone call that totally shocked the hosts, so much that they had to use it for the promo.
A woman, who told us that at the time of the incident had just recently had a baby, her and her husband were driving one evening and she felt the need to go. They called in to a petrol station and she asked the guy serving if she could have the key for the toilets. He told her that the toilets were for staff only. She told him, with tears in her eyes, that she had just had a baby, and we all know how that can affect the waterworks of a woman, and she desperately needed to go. He told her again that the toilets were for staff only, no exceptions. She was so desperate that she went around the back of the place and relieved herself on the ground. Throughout the tale, one of the hosts was sharing her displeasure and disbelief that someone would deny facilities to a woman that was in obvious distress, and especially to someone that has just given birth. Then one of the other hosts piped up with the idea that hopefully when the guy went for his smoke break later, he might have stood in the puddle.
So I have had the pleasure (?) of listening to the story of the poor new mum denied her basic human rights to use a toilet at a petrol station, denied by the bad man at the counter, ALL FREAKING DAY.
I'm not wrong on this, am I? I'm positive that there was so much more to that story, but of course we have to believe the new mother was totally demeaned by being forced to relieve herself on the dirty ground of a petrol station rather than use the nice clean toilet. And each time I heard this story it made me angrier and angrier for the poor guy that was being castigated for not letting some SC or EW use the staff toilets. We've all experienced this, but of course we are the bad people when we deny anyone. I really wish I had been able to ring through and debate this, but unfortunately I don't have access to a phone until my first break, which was after the show had ended.
(107.1)
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